There is a splendid and very comprehensive Petrarch bibliography, based
on the almost entirely comprehensive Fiske Petrarch collection at Cornell:
Catalogue of the Petrarch collection bequeathed by Willard Fiske.
Compiled by Mary Fowler. London, Oxford University Press, 1916.
My copy is the Kraus-Thomson reprint of 1974:
Petrarch, "Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection in the Cornell
University Library," Intro. Morris Bishop, Index by Laura Jennings,
revised to incorporate post-1916 acquisitions, of which there have been
many.
Believe me, it is very hard to find a Petrarch item of significance
which isn't at Cornell; even Italian scholars say the collection is
unmatched, bringing together in one place books which in Italy are
scattered in many different libraries. The listing of the "Rime" (aka
the "Canzoniere") runs for 58 triple-column pages, followed by over 50
triple-column pages of translations (complete and selected) from
English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Danish, Greek, Latin,
Provencal, Slovenian and Swedish.
Seek it out! Germaine
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